During a speech at the Supreme People’s Assembly, the North Korean leader again ruled out the possibility of using his nuclear weapons as bargaining chips.

Did you know, you can now watch the Asia Geopolitics podcast on YouTube? Here's our latest episode, in which Ankit & Katie unpack Nepal's recent, and sudden, political upheaval.

India was preparing to host Prime Minister Oli on September 16 for a long-overdue visit. But the Oli government imploded suddenly, catching Delhi off guard.

What's really behind Nepal's Gen Z revolution?

While Active Cyber Defense removes structural barriers to cooperation, at the same time it is supposed to gradually reduce Japan’s overreliance on U.S. cyberdefense systems.

What's really behind Nepal's Gen Z revolution? Asia Geopolitics podcast hosts Ankit Panda and Katie Putz discuss in the latest episode. Check it out on Spotify now!

An ambitious policy framework for transitioning to renewable energy has translated into limited change in Kazakhstan. Why?

China’s limited success in managing the political risks of the BRI has resulted in reputational costs and played a role in China’s curtailed flow of BRI lending in recent years.

Far from consolidating, recognition by the international community could expose the Taliban's rifts over resources, external demands, and identity.

In an apparent response to the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises that just started, North Korea's Kim Jong Un paid an inspection visit to unmanned weapons and equipment.

That Indonesia’s costly high-speed rail is operating at a loss right out of the gate has raised some eyebrows.

It is nearly impossible for even the closest U.S. allies to comply with its byzantine immigration system. That needs to change.

Geopolitics in East Asia is pushing Ulaanbaatar and Tokyo to rely more on each other.

On September 8, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced a new wave of sanctions against scam compounds and enablers in Southeast Asia. It was the most expansive action to date.

The pattern of clashes between students and locals has repeated around Bangladesh.

The pattern of clashes between students and locals has repeated around Bangladesh.

As climate change accelerates and water resources in Central Asia continue to shrink, the construction of the massive Qosh Tepa Canal in northern Afghanistan is raising alarm among neighboring states.

As a technology, large language models have been ruthless in highlighting the waste and weaknesses of the “knowledge industries.”

Last week, a Reuters report turned a spotlight on the alleged role of Thai officials in facilitating the trafficking of foreign workers to scam centers in eastern Myanmar.

A few sunlit ridges beside ice-rich craters could become lunar chokepoints, unless Asia writes simple, shared rules now.

The antidote to Europe's flawed China policy of the past is not decoupling or moral grandstanding, but managed interdependence.

Leaked documents from Geedge Networks and GoLaxy show how repression in China is both a political imperative and a profitable business.

This is Pakistan’s most significant formal defense pact in decades, and the first such agreement that an Arab Gulf state has inked with a nuclear-armed partner.

Even though China’s role in South Asia has grown in the last decade, Beijing has little by way of policy or strategy when it comes to dealing with political instability in the region.

While Active Cyber Defense removes structural barriers to cooperation, at the same time it is supposed to gradually reduce Japan’s overreliance on U.S. cyberdefense systems.

What's really behind Nepal's Gen Z revolution? Asia Geopolitics podcast hosts Ankit Panda and Katie Putz discuss in the latest episode. Check it out on Spotify now!

An ambitious policy framework for transitioning to renewable energy has translated into limited change in Kazakhstan. Why?

China’s limited success in managing the political risks of the BRI has resulted in reputational costs and played a role in China’s curtailed flow of BRI lending in recent years.

Far from consolidating, recognition by the international community could expose the Taliban's rifts over resources, external demands, and identity.

In an apparent response to the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises that just started, North Korea's Kim Jong Un paid an inspection visit to unmanned weapons and equipment.

That Indonesia’s costly high-speed rail is operating at a loss right out of the gate has raised some eyebrows.

It is nearly impossible for even the closest U.S. allies to comply with its byzantine immigration system. That needs to change.

Geopolitics in East Asia is pushing Ulaanbaatar and Tokyo to rely more on each other.

On September 8, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced a new wave of sanctions against scam compounds and enablers in Southeast Asia. It was the most expansive action to date.

The pattern of clashes between students and locals has repeated around Bangladesh.

As climate change accelerates and water resources in Central Asia continue to shrink, the construction of the massive Qosh Tepa Canal in northern Afghanistan is raising alarm among neighboring states.

The antidote to the flawed China policy of the past is not decoupling or moral grandstanding, but managed interdependence.

India’s navy is the only one that operates persistently between Qatar, the forward HQ of the US CENTCOM, and the Malacca Strait, which leads into the South China Sea.

Refugees in Mizoram exist in a precarious gray zone – tolerated but not recognized, caught between India’s domestic politics and Myanmar’s internal conflicts.

While increasingly widespread, the view of China as an existential challenge to the current world order reflects political alarmism more than sober analysis. buff.ly/68o76Tp

Past movements were characterized by elite political bargaining between Nepal’s established political parties, leading to negotiated power sharing agreements. The Gen Z revolution led by Nepal’s young “digital netizens” has tried to break this pattern. buff.ly/PbpwMOP

What China once denounced as U.S. militarization has now become part of Singapore’s own force structure.

China’s limited success in managing the political risks of the BRI has resulted in reputational costs and played a role in China’s curtailed flow of BRI lending in recent years.

Both the “engineering state” and the “mayor economy” framings obscure the critical mechanics of China’s growth machine. buff.ly/M6CBunW

Over the last 10 years, Kazakhstan has set up a robust framework for a green energy transition. So why do fossil fuels still dominate Kazakhstan’s energy mix?

Treasury’s latest sanctions targeting Cambodian scam centers show momentum, but contradictions in U.S. policy risk blunting their impact. buff.ly/iWsEd8u

Far from consolidating, recognition by the international community could expose the Taliban’s rifts over resources, external demands, and identity.

That Indonesia’s costly high-speed rail is operating at a loss right out of the gate has raised some eyebrows. But most of Indonesian public transit is not profitable.

Kazakhstan should be, and has been, commended for strengthening legal protections for women and holding perpetrators accountable, but more must be done.

With attention on tariff negotiations, Japan’s upper house elections, and Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru’s resignation, Japan’s enactment of Active Cyber Defense (ACD) legislation in May 2025 has remained under the radar.